Technical Architect

Architect

Overview

CashFlow Central is seeking an Architect to define and evolve the technical architecture for solutions that support small businesses. This role works across product and engineering teams to shape scalable, secure, and maintainable systems that align with business priorities and delivery needs. The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader who can turn complex requirements into clear architectural direction, reduce ambiguity, and help teams make sound design decisions.

This is not primarily an implementation-focused role. While hands-on technical depth is important, this person is expected to lead architecture strategy, establish design standards, guide teams through complex technical decisions, and ensure solutions are built with long-term reliability, security, and operability in mind.

Key Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end architecture for services, integrations, data flows, and platform capabilities across CashFlow Central.

• Establish design standards and reference patterns for scalability, security, resilience, maintainability, and supportability.

• Lead technical design reviews and drive alignment across engineering teams on architecture decisions and implementation approaches.

• Partner with engineering, product, security, and operations stakeholders to shape roadmap decisions and technical priorities.

• Identify technical risks early and recommend pragmatic approaches to modernization, simplification, and long-term platform health.

• Guide teams through complex implementation decisions without owning all day-to-day feature delivery directly.

• Evaluate architecture tradeoffs related to performance, reliability, compliance, integration complexity, and operational support.

• Promote reusable patterns, shared services, and sound engineering guardrails that improve delivery consistency across teams.

• Mentor senior engineers and raise architectural maturity through technical leadership, coaching, and clear documentation.

Required Qualifications

• Senior-level experience designing and evolving enterprise or business-critical software architectures in agile delivery environments.

• Strong hands-on experience with cloud-based solution design in Azure and application ecosystems built with .NET and C#.

• Proven success setting technical direction across multiple teams, systems, or workstreams.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, integration patterns, data flows, and event-driven architecture concepts.

• Strong understanding of security, reliability, resiliency, observability, and maintainable system design.

• Experience leading technical design reviews and translating business goals into pragmatic architecture decisions.

• Ability to balance long-term architectural direction with near-term delivery realities and implementation constraints.

• Proven ability to work independently, manage ambiguity, and influence decisions across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and functions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting platforms in small business, financial services, payments, or related regulated environments.

• Experience with technologies such as Kafka, Snowflake, AI-enabled services, or similar event-driven and data-intensive platforms.

• Experience with platform modernization, shared services, and enterprise integration strategy.

• Experience establishing architecture governance practices, technical standards, or long-range technical roadmaps.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Codex, Claude, Copilot, or similar platforms.

What Success Looks Like

• Establishes clear architectural direction that teams can execute against with confidence.

• Reduces ambiguity and rework by making sound design decisions early and communicating them clearly.

• Improves scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability across CashFlow Central solutions.

• Helps teams deliver faster by introducing reusable patterns, better standards, and pragmatic technical guardrails.

• Builds trust as a technical leader who connects business goals to practical, durable architecture decisions.